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Eskom to close its community service centres in Khayelitsha and Bellville

City of Cape Town condemns decision and says there is a “notable increase” in complaints from customers supplied directly by Eskom

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News | 28 June 2024

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Gauteng non-profit organisations reject findings of province’s forensic probe

Six out of 13 drug rehabs previously funded by the Gauteng Social Development Department are now “under investigation”

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News | 27 June 2024

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Here’s why people with green ID books are struggling with SASSA’s new verification process

Many beneficiaries of the monthly R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant might not be paid

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News | 26 June 2024

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Namaqualand community raises the alarm over copper mining in their small town

The Department of Mineral Resources will visit Concordia in July to assess the mine’s compliance with dust mitigation and other issues

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News | 26 June 2024

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We have no engineer to build your houses, official tells Kariega protesters

R334 blocked by shack dwellers for the second time in a month

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News | 25 June 2024

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Premier apologises for Gauteng government’s non-profit funding crisis

About 300 representatives from organisations across the province travelled to Johannesburg to meet social development officials and the Premier

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News | 24 June 2024

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Gauteng government buys newspaper space to praise MEC

MEC Mbali Hlophe won’t say how much the province spent on the advertorials

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News | 24 June 2024

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Workers describe appalling conditions at Eswatini mine

“To live, I had to quit”

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News | 21 June 2024

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Controversial auditing firm appointed by Gauteng Department of Social Development

Department acknowledges that the appointment of Open Water, which also probed the Ace Magashule Free State housing scandal, was irregular

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News | 21 June 2024

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“I had to beg for my child’s maintenance money”

The Department of Justice’s payment portal, MojoPay, has suspended electronic payments since May due to suspected fraud

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News | 20 June 2024

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SASSA’s new ID verification process sparks alarm

Biometric identification has been introduced to fight fraud, says agency

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News | 19 June 2024

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Huge housing project stopped by “masked thugs”

Beneficiaries of Covid Village relocation project in Cape Town marched to Mfuleni police station to demand SAPS take action

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News | 19 June 2024

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Meet the beekeepers of the mangrove forests

Members of the Cwebeni cooperative trek four kilometres to harvest honey deep in the forests of the Wild Coast

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News | 18 June 2024

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In photos: one of the worst places to live in Cape Town

“Our parents lived in this poverty, we are living in this poverty, and now our children are living in this poverty”

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News | 14 June 2024

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Mpox in South Africa: here’s what we know

Health department reports second death from the disease

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News | 13 June 2024

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National Arts Festival battles to get much-needed Lottery funding

The decision not to fund the country’s longest running arts festival was communicated a month before its start date

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News | 13 June 2024